Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:13:27 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-rc3 test: finding compile errors with make randconfig |
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
> Greetings,
Hi Grant,
> Few days ago I compiled 241 random configurations of 2.6.13-rc3, today > I finally got around to parsing the results, top 40, sorted by name. > Percentage is error_builds / total_builds. > > build script similar to: > count=0 > while [ $((++count)) -le $limit ]; do > trial=$(printf %003d $count) > make randconfig > cp .config "$store/$trial-config" > make clean > make -j2 2> "$store/$trial-error" > done > > Curious whether this is worth doing, I'm about to start a run for 2.6.12.3, > any interesting errors I can find the particular config + error to recover > context. Deliberately simplistic for traceability at the moment, truncated > error length for this post. >...
it's generally useful, but the target kernel should be the latest -mm kernel.
And doing the compilations is really the trivial part of the work, the main work is to analyze what causes the build failures and sending patches.
> Grant.
cu Adrian
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